Chapter 112: Breaking Through to the Third Layer of Spirit Refinement

An Qian seemed to be quite the good cook — not only did she make honey-glazed roast rabbit, she also made a wild mushroom and pheasant soup.

The taste was absolutely fantastic!

In any case, of the four people, aside from herself, the other three all ate until they were stuffed.

Su Jin had eaten so much she could barely walk, and it was Su Jian who had to drag her off to walk off the meal.

"Come on, let's walk and digest a bit, or you'll definitely feel miserable this afternoon. You won't even be able to focus when you practice magic." Su Jian pulled up the little girl who was sprawled on the blanket with a bulging little tummy, and took her for a stroll.

Su Jin, dragged along by big brother, thought to herself: I'm already so stuffed it hurts!

After finally reducing her bulging little tummy a little, Su Jin raised her little white paw and swore: "I'll never be greedy for food again."

Su Jian burst into endless laughter at that.

"Serves you right for being greedy. Big brother even reminded you not to eat too much. You just wouldn't listen and kept your head down, eating like crazy. Suffering now, aren't you?"

"I only ate a few extra bites."

"Look at your little tummy — it's puffed up that high. Are you sure you only ate a few extra bites?"

Su Jin fell silent on the spot.

"Alright, you're not feeling too bad now, right? If you can tough it out, go practice your magic.

Focus your attention on magic practice — even if your body feels a bit uncomfortable now and then, you won't notice it.

Once you've burned through all your stamina and magic power, your little tummy will be digested away, and you'll be completely free of the discomfort." Su Jian comforted her.

Su Jin: "..."

In the afternoon, Su Jin practiced magic with extra ferocious intensity.

Her magic power was gone, and her stamina was gone too.

And sure enough, her little tummy was gone too.

On the flying car ride back, An Qian felt that this little girl Su Jin was smiling at her with extra brilliance.

When they returned to the East Gate, they happened to run right into the massive evening rush-hour traffic jam.

At the East City gate, a total of ten inspection lanes had been opened.

Six of them were flying-car lanes, and four were pedestrian lanes.

Large numbers of soldiers stood ready in formation, their eyes sharp as they watched every person who intended to enter Xiancheng.

The moment Su Jin's group lined up in a flying-car queue, the sound of hoofbeats came from behind them again.

Then Su Jin and Su Jian, the two siblings, saw that coachman Feng Qi and his flying car come clip-clop-clipping over and line up right behind their flying car.

Su Jian: "..."

The rather proud Feng Qi, seeing An Qian poke her head out, even gave a cold snort.

An Qian: "..."

The gate soldiers' entry inspection was very fast and steady.

Soon it was Su Jian's group's flying car's turn. Su Jian and the others had to get out of the car along with the coachman for inspection.

Once the inspection was done, everyone would head home their separate ways.

Su Jian and Su Jin went home together; Su Hanlin went to see An Qian off.

On the way home, Su Jian and Su Jin were suddenly blocked by someone in an alley.

That person was none other than Su Yu.

Today's Su Yu seemed to have aged dramatically all at once. He had also become somewhat slovenly.

"You went out of the city with An Qian today?" Su Yu demanded angrily.

"What's the matter with you? Do I need to report to you who I team up with to leave the city?" Su Jian immediately frowned unhappily.

"Why didn't you call me when you went out of the city?" Su Yu stubbornly pressed on.

"Why should I call you? It's just leaving the city — I can invite whoever I want." Su Jian looked at him and said coldly: "What exactly do you want by blocking us? If there's nothing, get out of the way, now."

"Su Jian, I remember we're friends too. How could you leave me out and go straight to An Qian? An Qian is mine." Su Yu said as if possessed.

"An Qian is yours? Has she herself agreed to that?" Su Jian scoffed openly.

"Su Jian, you want to break ties with me too?" Su Yu suddenly looked at him with a fierce, hostile expression.

"What? You want to take me on?" Su Jian immediately pulled Su Jin behind him, flicked his wrist, and a black long blade appeared in his hand.

With the blade in hand, Su Jian's bearing changed dramatically at once.

A strange, demonic aura began to boil inside and around him.

"You..." Seeing Su Jian really about to fight him, Su Yu instead didn't dare step forward, gave an angry cold snort, and turned and left on the spot.

Su Jian watched him walk far away with his own eyes before putting away the black blade again.

"From now on, stay far away from him when you see him — that guy's got something wrong in his head." Su Jian warned Su Jin.

"Okay."

Back home, Su Jin quickly sent Xue Xue Chiluo back to the rear courtyard. The moment Xue Xue Chiluo returned to the rear courtyard, it started running wild, zipping back and forth through the spirit field.

"Xue Xue Chiluo, you behaved very well today. When I was practicing magic, you didn't run off to play either. Keep doing this from now on, got it?"

"Okay, Ancestor." Xue Xue Chiluo answered obediently.

"So, Bu Satan, do you want to stay here with Xue Xue Chiluo and play for a while?" Su Jin hurriedly asked the little gold bracelet lying in her hand.

Bu Satan's main policy was to not respond.

"If you don't answer me again, you don't get to eat today." Su Jin said, exasperated.

Bu Satan had no choice but to squeak, sending a thought directly to Su Jin: "Not staying to play, want to be with Ancestor, want to eat a one-tael mineral."

"From now on, when I ask you something, remember to answer me. Otherwise, no food for you." Su Jin warned. "You do things by the rules, and I'll talk rules with you. If you yourself don't follow the rules, then I certainly won't bother following any rules with you either.

No food as punishment. No discussion."

Su Jin recalled how Mother had ground out Su Shen's bad temper when she was little.

Su Jin decided to copy the assignment outright, directly borrowing her mother's method to deal with Busatan, who loved lying flat and refused to communicate with her.

Busatan: I have a feeling I'm about to get disciplined lately! Great-great-grandmother demands too much!

Xue Chuluo watched from the side, secretly delighted.

As expected, Busatan didn't try to curry favor with great-great-grandmother on her own!!

Wahahaha!

If tonight was any different, it was that the night sky was deeper and the stars brighter.

Su Jin woke up on her own again in the middle of the night.

By now, the soul power within her Sea of Consciousness had begun to overflow.

She was about to break through to the third layer of Spirit Refinement.

Su Jin hurriedly sat up to meditate, continuously circulating the Great Expansion Spirit Refinement Art.

Boom!

Her Sea of Consciousness trembled.

Her spiritual power surged once more, leaping from the overflowing two hundred and forty threads of soul power to nearly three hundred threads.

With the surge in her soul power, Su Jin clearly sensed this time that the area of Little Wu Tian was also expanding rapidly.

From the original eight or nine mu, it suddenly expanded to a space of twelve mu.

Moreover, with her breakthrough, countless tiny white light points appeared once more within Little Wu Tian.

These tiny white light points danced throughout the entire little space; the cluster of gourd vines planted in Little Wu Tian twisted their bodies frantically, scrambling eagerly to absorb and devour the tiny white light points drifting near them.

Su Jin had no idea what those tiny white light points were, but they were definitely good stuff.

Look, Jin Tong Mu had also scooped up quite a few, but instead of absorbing and devouring them, it made itself a wooden bottle and stored all the tiny white light points inside.